Macrosolen COCHINCHINENSIS (Lour.) Van Teigh.
| Synonym : | Loranthus cochinchinensis Lour. Loranthus fordii Hance Macrosolen fordii (Hance) Danser Tristerix viridiflorus Mart. |
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| Bangla Name : | Chota Banda, Rema (Sylhet).,Orsallu (Chakma.). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Loranthaceae |
| Disease : | Jaundice. |
| Description : | A much branched, quite glabrous, epiphytic parasitic shrub with swollen nodes. Leaves 4-12 cm long, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, thickly coriaceous. Flowers greenish-yellow, lip purplish, up to 20 mm long, in axillary racemes, solitary or in pairs, sometimes clustered. Fruit a berry, 6-8 mm long, slightly tubercled, dark violet when ripe. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Sylhet, Dinajpur, Rangpur, Rajshahi, Moulvi Bazar, attached on host plants. |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | The leaf paste is taken by Chakma as a remedy for jaundice. |
| Habit : | Shrub |